Walt Whitman’s “The Artilleryman’s Vision” and the letter to his mother are two pieces of work by the same author. The two pieces of work share some key differences. Other than being two different types of works, there differences go deeper than that. The characters and settings are both very different and yet, they still manage to to seem similar. They also have completely different writing styles and choice of words due to the different writing styles.
Both works focus on the horrors of war and what it does to the soldiers. The message the works convey both demonstrate how awful war is. They both demonstrate soldiers opinions on fighting and the war in general. Both are very good at using descriptive words and painting a very visceral picture
“In fantasy unreal, the skirmishers begin,” Walt Whitman states in “The Artilleryman’s Vision.” Walt Whitman is describing what happened during the Civil War. He described it like “suffocating smoke,” and, “warning s-s-t of the rifles. In “The Artilleryman’s Vision”, Walt Whitman uses imagery and tone to make it feel like you are living the war. Whitman starts the poem with the narrator in his room with his wife and his infant.
The books that are being compared and contrasted are both about The Civil War and what these soldiers went through. Each book has a few differences that separate them. The books are based on the same time period so they are going to have a lot in common. The books describe what both characters had to go through during the war. The differences in the book will show you how each soldier went through the war differently and the similarity’s will show you how it was for most of the soldiers in the Civil War.
In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, the author retells the chilling, and oftentimes gruesome, experiences of the Vietnam war. He utilizes many anecdotes and other rhetorical devices in his stories to paint the image of what war is really like to people who have never experienced it. In the short stories “Spin,” “The Man I Killed,” and “ ,” O’Brien gives reader the perfect understanding of the Vietnam by placing them directly into the war itself. In “Spin,” O’Brien expresses the general theme of war being boring and unpredictable, as well as the soldiers being young and unpredictable.
This reveals how the war impacted the people of vietnam and the sacrifices they had to make to be safe from the
Throught this powerful essay it is clear that MacArthur is passionate about his Country and the military who serves it. Being very vivid in the descriptions of the world at war, was a way that this essay provokes emotion. Stating “...many a weary march from dripping dusk to to drizzling dawn,slogging ankle-deep through the mire of shell-shocked roads, to form grimly for the attack,blue-lipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective…” Those striking words hit the audience like an arrow piercing the hearts of those in attendance. This diction drives home the the point through the use of the audience's emotions keeping their feeling on the surface to be further affected by the speaker's words.
This portrayal reveals the shared humanity of the soldiers on both sides and how in war beauty and horror
The author compares the soldiers because he wants the readers
What makes their work so exemplary, is that they spare no emotional shock by describing the horrors of combat vividly, they included both sides of the war instead of being a one-sided story, giving accurate number and analytics when specific numbers were shown as the story progressed, and giving multiple stories displaying the troubles of the soldiers who had participated in WWII. This novel really does justice to what real war was through not
The novel focuses on coping with the death and horror of war. It also speaks volumes about the true nature of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the never-ending struggle of dealing with it. In the
The Wars is a symbolic masterpiece that illustrates the great impact war brings on the microcosm of society and how individuals juxtaposed to the war are affected. The novel itself requires active reading; because without it, the novel would seem very simplistic; however, after further examination, readers can evidently recognize the complexity of Robert’s character with the aid of many heteroglossic components, techniques, devices, and the reworking of literary conventions. Robert’s physical, mental and emotional journey he endeavours, followed by the constant re-evaluations of his truths and becoming a more proficient soldier, can be seen through a formalist perspective with the use of foreshadowing to signify Robert’s transition from a sane to insane soldier; the utilization of animal imagery highlighting Robert’s development through the horrific experiences of war; and the several themes in the text to illustrate Robert’s evolution as a soldier through his inner
The Things They Carried, written by Tim O’Brien and Slaughterhouse Five, written by Kurt Vonnegut, and both books that are an example of anti-war in literature. Both O’Brien and Vonnegut were both war veterans and put themselves in their own books. The books both portray the horrors of war. In both these novels they spoke on the destructiveness of war and how it also destroys the way a person thinks.
Comparative Essay How can different perceptions about one topic be expressed in poetry? The main theme that the two sets of poems convey is war, but it’s expressed in different point of views through the use of diction that builds tone. The tones of these poems play a big role in conveying the differences between the different eras that these poems are written in, and shows how societies have changed from the Victorian era till the time of World War I. The diction and tone in Borden and Owen’s poems is so much different than the diction and tone in Lovelace and Tennyson’s poems due to different perspectives and point of views. In all four poems the main idea is war, but each set conveys a perspective of war, a positive perspective
Poetry is an aesthetic and rhythmic form of literature, used by the author to evoke meaning and communicate a deeper understanding of one’s opinion. ‘Children’ by Nancy Keesing, a Jewish Australian writer, depicts the horror of modern warfare, further contrasted to the ‘horrors’ of our own lives. Keesing positions the reader to feel sympathetic for the undeserving, innocent children who are victims of the tortures of war. However, she expands on these tragedies when comparing those forced to witness the horrific measures of war to what is stressed over in our world. Numerous literary and imagery features are utilized to further emphasise the theme of modern warfare, even managing to develop a sense of guilt in the reader through the difference
Two authors, one similar story of men in war killing a innocent man, and becoming traumatized on what they did. These two passages take place in two completely different wars, but connected in remarkable
War has been going on for a long period of time. That shows plenty of people sacrificed their lives fighting for their country. Being at war, people gain experiences and develop feelings that they choose to express through writing. Their writing influence the reader’s thoughts about how war is really like. Writers choose to express their emotions and experiences about war through their pieces of literature by using imagery, irony, and structure.